I'm trying to determine if it is plausible to build an apache module for a web based terminal emulator. I would be borrowing some of the code from the ShellInaBox project: https://code.google.com/p/shellinabox/ The code uses openpty() to create a new process operating in a pseudo-tty. The apache module would have to pass keyboard and display information back and forth from the client browser to the pseudo-tty in the module.
It seems like with the pre-fork mpm, I cannot guarantee that the ajax POST requests will make it to the same module instance each time. Are modules stateless? Is it possible to share the pseudo-tty and hashmaps keeping session information across all instances of my module? Or is there anything that can be added to the POST request to guarantee that it goes to a specific module instance? Thanks for the help. - Sean
